Prep Football: Lena-Winslow’s offense erupts vs. Aquin

LENA — The Panthers couldn’t score for three quarters last week against Galena.

Friday night, Lena-Winslow’s offense couldn’t be stopped.

Aquin surrendered more than 60 points and couldn’t stop Ben Moest or Tyler Oakley as the Panthers won, 61-30.

“Our O-line has dominated at times this year,” Le-Win coach Ric Arand said. “But we haven’t done it for 48 minutes.

“That’s what we did tonight and that was good to see.”

Oakley ran for 235 yards and scored three touchdowns. Quarterback Ben Moest threw for four touchdowns and ran in another.

Moest put Le-Win (5-3, 4-2 NUIC Northwest) on the board with two passing TDs for a 14-0 score. Aquin (5-3, 5-2 NUIC Upstate) responded with another two for a 14-12 score in the first, but Le-Win was unfazed.

“We needed to rebound,” Moest said. “We were trying to put together a complete game.”

Oakley torched the Aquin defense on a 70-yard TD, followed by a 12-yard score and the Bulldogs had to play catch up from there.

By halftime, the Bulldogs trailed 42-24 as the team struggled to prevent the big play.

“Five out of the last eight games we’ve been down because of giving that up,” Aquin coach Todd Kramer said. “We just have been digging ourselves in a hole.

“We have to start creating things for ourselves.”

Aquin didn’t score again until the fourth quarter while the Panthers kept scoring. Moest connected for a 22-yard pass to Oakley for a 54-24 lead.

Le-Win forced two interceptions, the second by Brandan Eilders was returned for Le-Win’s last score of the game.